http://www.vox.com/2014/8/28/6078117/americans-foresee-unending-economic-doom
When you have an economic catastrophe - and it bears repeating that technically 2007-8 was a depression - it takes a LONG time to revive people's confidence. Reagan's great trick was in reviving confidence, even when things weren't really improving all that much for many people. He as great at the atmospherics of pride.
This decade feels very much like the '70s. The hangover from a bad war, energy concerns, environmental apocalyptic warnings, economic stagnation. My guess, also, is that if you asked people in '79 or even '91 if they thought things would get better, they would've been pretty pessimistic. I know the early '90s felt like shit to me.
The economy will bounce back. And as long as Democrats can gain control of Congress and the Courts, it might even bounce back for working class Americans, too.
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